TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting ...

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ transplants.

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in a woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois, his donor and brother, José Gregorio González, is being held ...